Out-of-phase boiling water reactor stability monitoring

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 125-131

  Ceceñas Falcón, Miguel ^a   Edwards, Robert M ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES ELÉCTRICAS   (Mexico)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NEUTRON SCATTERING; NUMERICAL METHODS; OSCILLATIONS; REACTION KINETICS;

NEUTRON SPECTRUM; REDUCED ORDER MODAL ESTIMATOR; STABILITY MONITORING;

BOILING WATER REACTORS;

EID: 0043199338     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT03-A3402     Document Type: Article

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